Thought For the Week

Dear Friends, Last week I sent you some thoughts from the 1915 weekly calendar I found at Nancy’s childhood home in Massachusetts. I got many appreciative responses, so I thought I would send you one last selection of them today. One person wrote saying that they also, like me, enjoy “the old dead guys.” I must confess I do have a deep appreciation for many of them. Certain things change and become obsolete over time, but common sense and wise words tend to retain their staying power. Therefore, I send you this one last grouping of thoughts from, “The Business Man’s Calendar,” published in 1914 (for 1915), by Dodge Publishing Co., 216 E. 23rd Street, New York City. Enjoy! “No amount of money ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.” Ruskin “Do good with what you have; or it will do you no good.” William Penn “The happy man is he who is cheerful with moderate means; the unhappy man is he who is discontented in the midst of excess an...